Speaker: Gwen Shapira
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Co-Founder and CPO @Nile, Previously Engineering Leader @Confluent, PMC Member @Kafka, & Committer Apache Sqoop
Gwen is a co-founder and CPO of Nile (thenile.dev). She has 20+ years of experience working with code and customers to build reliable and scalable data architectures - most recently as the head of Cloud Native Kafka engineering org at Confluent. Gwen is a committer to Apache Kafka, author of “Kafka - the Definitive Guide” and "Hadoop Application Architectures". You can find her speaking at tech conferences or talking data at the SaaS Developer Community.
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Session
When Your Users Are Agents: Lessons from a Distributed Postgres Platform
Distributed systems are built around assumptions about workload behavior: connections have reasonable lifetimes, retries eventually stop, traffic spikes have recognizable causes, and application code produces somewhat predictable query patterns.
Date
Tuesday Nov 17 / 11:45AM PST ( 50 minutes )
Location
Ballroom BC
